Textiles

Textile works that investigate guilt, spirituality, and the future.

The poet and artist invokes ancient matriarchal cultures, Indigenous folkways, and the speculative capacities of language so that we might rediscover our kinship with nature.

Rediscovering a “maverick” female artist from the ’70s
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Found objects and fabrics.

Creating worlds and paying attention.

Photographs and textiles that materialize community.

Extending the possibilities of relation.

A documentary on the brutality behind India’s textile factories.

Hovsepian addresses current matters in her work, but she does so in a vocabulary that moves beyond binaries and beyond Western mentality, one that follows a different way of thinking and feeling.

“Analogues for organizing and activism.”

Through sewing, weaving, and embroidery, two artists probe the boundaries between texts and textiles.

In the garden behind the gallery, Meksin installed Winglet, a huge piece of hot-pink open mesh layered with smaller pieces of bright-pink and neon-green patterned spandex.

Christa Maiwald discusses her transition away from video and the social and political implications of embroidery.

On sculpture’s theatricality and refusal to be imaged. 

Zoe Pettijohn Schade on small-scale infinities, revitalizing the textile tradition and avoiding lengthy wall texts.

Krystian von Speidel sits down with artist Nick Cave to talk about his incredible Soundsuits and his concurrent exhibits at Jack Shainman and Mary Boone Galleries. Cave shares his thoughts on pipe cleaners and fashion week, and invites everyone to come to his playground.

Joe Fyfe tells painter Josh Blackwell about his involvement in abstraction as a by-product of loss and the wabi-sabi discovered on his travels to Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.

Yinka Shonibare first came to widespread attention through his use of Dutch wax fabric, which he has used both as the ground of his paintings and to clothe his sculptures. 

April 1995 I was among 100 artists from around the world invited to participate in a three week long exhibition to honor lsrael’s “Year of Peace.” Construction in Process—Coexistence took place in and around Mitzpe-Ramon, a small desert town on the edge of the world’s largest crater.

“I love a strapless dress that makes you look voluptuous. It’s an art form.”